General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: When do we start calling this a 'cover-up' by the Obama White House? [View all]bigtree
(94,649 posts). . . I tend to believe his reluctance to allow full disclosure of the Bush-era abuses are mostly a protection and defense against revelations about his own administration's conduct which has co-opted/inherited many material aspects of Bush's 'war on terror.'
In many ways he appears to be protecting his own prerogatives to employ many of those objectionable and institutionally embarrassing methods and operations, like 'extraordinary renditions' and allowing interrogation techniques to be performed on the U.S. behalf in other countries which look the other way regarding such abuses. That's reflected in the way that the administration is opposing the Senate committee efforts to reveal those countries that aided the Bush administration in those efforts.
Thanks for the discussion.